Thesis Statement The post-COVID-19 pandemic has brought awareness to the precarious situation in Ontario that foreign migrant workers face, particularly those in the essential industry sectors, including agriculture and healthcare. This crisis accentuates pre-existing vulnerabilities that include unsafe working conditions, inadequate housing, and limited access to healthcare. Urgent action is needed to address these systemic issues to help ensure the wellbeing and rights of migrant workers in Ontario. Introduction During the outbreak of COVID-19, many Canadian citizens were affected by the virus, causing citizens to lose jobs, seek government support through EI or Canada benefits, and be there for themselves throughout the pandemic. Those who did not have access to these …show more content…
The findings reveal that migrant farmworkers in Ontario encountered numerous challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, including heightened health and safety risks, inadequate access to personal protective equipment (PPE), precarious employment conditions, and limited access to healthcare services. Systemic vulnerabilities, such as language barriers, social isolation, and limited legal protections, exacerbate these challenges. Despite these challenges, the study highlights the resilience and resourcefulness of migrant farmworkers, as well as the role of social dialogue in addressing their needs and advocating for improved working conditions. Through social dialogue initiatives, such as stakeholder consultations, collaborative decision-making processes, and collective bargaining agreements, stakeholders have identified key issues, proposed solutions, and implemented measures to improve the working conditions of migrant farmworkers in
Chapter four talked a lot about The Tanaka brothers Farm and how the workers had picked berries once a week or twice a week and experienced several forms of pain days afterward. Workers often felt sick the night before picking due to stress about picking the minimum weight. This chapter also focuses ethnographic attention on how the poor suffer. The poorest of the poor on the farm were the Triqui Strawberry pickers. The Triqui migrant laborers can be understood as an embodiment of violence continuum. Triqui people experienced notable health problems affecting their ability to function in their work or their families. This chapter also talked about how crossing the border from Mexico to the United States involves incredible financial, physical, and emotional suffering for Triqui
I worked their for summer and was not that bad and farmworkers fooling themselves and deciding to use it as a justification even when they realize that it is not same thing for a white teenager working on the field as part time and them (migrant labor). “Denaturalization” can be defined as the way of by going against of social inequalities and uncovering linkage between symbolic violence and
The migrant worker community in states like Florida, Texas, and California is often an ‘obscure population’ of the state. They live in isolated communities and have very little stability or permanence. According to the Florida Department of Health, 150,000 to 200,000 migrant workers work in the State of Fl...
As people immigrated to the United States, legally and illegally, particularly Hispanic workers, they began to look for jobs to provide for their families. They took jobs that Americans did not want: they accepted the low-paying, physically-demanding, and temporal agriculture jobs. Since many did not speak English and were uneducated, some even illiterate, they were easy targets for farm owners to exploit. Immigrant workers were often not paid, had low wages, and because of such conditions, some even died. In addition, they also lived and worked in appalling conditions, some workplaces did not even have suitab...
In Canada, access to health care is ‘universal’ to its citizens under the Canadian Health Care Act and this system is considered to the one of the best in the world (Laurel & Richard, 2002). Access to health care is assumed on the strong social value of equality and is defined as the distribution of services to all those in need and for the common good and health of all residents (Fierlbeck, 2011). Equitable access to health care does not mean that all citizens are subjected to receive the same number of services but rather that wherever the service is provided it is based on need. Therefore, not all Canadians have equal access to health services. The Aboriginal peoples in Canada in particular are a population that is overlooked and underserved
Weigel, M. M. and R. X. Armijos (2011). "Exploratory Study of the Occupational Health and Health-Seeking of Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers on the U.S.-Mexico Border." J Immigr Minor Health.
During the month of October, Canada’s political scene was very busy due to the 2015 federal election held on the 19th. Throughout the previous months, the public held great interest towards the campaigns of each party as well as their platforms in order to choose the party that the public wanted as the new government of Canada. In the campaigns, a major topic that was included in every party’s plan was the Syrian refugee crisis that is currently an issue in many countries around the globe. This crisis has taken the media by storm and is a concern for many citizens in Canada. As a country known to be peaceful and generous, many people would assume that Canada would be one of the first to step in and help those in need but that is not the case. The general population does not know that the current laws in place make becoming a refugee in Canada a long and unfair process. Acquiring refugee status in Canada, protecting Canada’s Immigration System Act, health care for refugees and the current stance of Canada in regards to the refugee crisis are all factors that the general public must be more aware about. The current laws regarding refugees of Canada must change.
Additionally, other driving political factors such as systemic corruption and inadequate governance contribute to the marginalization and oppression of indigenous groups, which ultimately lead these underrepresented communities to pursue migration as a means of survival. Secondly, Holmes vividly portrayed the pervasive illness and suffering experienced by Triqui migrant workers in the United States through his ethnographic accounts, where Holmes reported his observations of the physical and emotional toll of strenuous agricultural labor, poor-quality living conditions, and limited access to proper affordable healthcare. These experiences reveal the harsh realities faced by migrant workers, in which many of these experiences are often undocumented and marginalized, leading to the exploitation of labor, health needs being neglected, and racial discrimination exacerbating the vulnerabilities of migrant
The health and wellbeing of workers is said to be a top priority for many companies, but the reality is that many individuals suffer from symbolic violence; images and representations that naturalize or normalize violence().The need for better working conditions for these laborers has been brought to light by the documentary The Globalization Tapes, and the work of Seth M. Holmes, Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United State. Both The Globalization Tapes, which highlights the working conditions of the palm oil workers in Indonesia, and the Fresh Fruit, Broken; which explores the lives of migrant farmworkers in America, expose the harsh realities of the poisonous, both figurative and literal, working conditions of these
Analytical framework The problem that highly skills immigrant faces when they come to Canada will be analyzed based on employment and unemployment rate after they come to Canada in their respective field of works which include immediate need of work, stringent credential assessment rules, language barrier and as well as discrimination as one of the factors by looking at the work of other scholars. Due to the limited scope of this research, the exclusion of other type of problems that immigrants faces such as emotional problems that parent faces which more likely to occur in settings of risk (e.g. poverty) and during periods of life transition and struggle,” finical problems such as finding housing, social problems such as access to services which the immigrants have a difficulty finding out type, range and quality of services
These vulnerable workers are more subject to illnesses and injuries. Immigrant workers have a higher chance of participating in physical labor than those who were born in Canada therefore making them more susceptible to labor that has high health-risks. Occupational Health and Safety risks are just one of the many issues that vulnerable workers have to face. These workers are more susceptible to health problems then those with permanent full-time jobs because they have little to no access to complain against the working conditions and to form unions. As a result of the lack of health benefits and no paid sick days the workers have to choice but to neglect their health conditions and ignore their injuries for the fear of getting let go or not making enough income while they seek medical treatment.
According to Stilwell et al (2004), during the first five years of migrating to Canada, immigrants are 30% less likely to work on a full-time basis, 65% less likely to have unemployment benefits, 40% more likely to be overqualified for their jobs, and more than twice as likely to be working on a part-time basis, though wanting to work on a full-time basis. Even if they manage to work on a full-time basis, majority of immigrant workers are likely to find themselves working under inhumane work conditions, an aspect that has significantly affected their health
The municipal government plays a significant role because they fund these social services, so once they cut back immigrants will not experience a smooth transition. Municipal government involvement in this policy field is timely as newcomers and members of cultural minorities face serious challenges to their economic and social integration in Toronto (Tossutti 2012). Through immigration settlement, this paper will show how immigration settlement provides a lack of access to services to newcomers, in which they face serious challenges to their economic and social integration. For the past decade, Canada has opened its doors to about 250,000 immigrants and refugees a year (Citizenship and Immigration Canada, 2015), however the government has its requirements.
The questions based in this variable are what are the roles of family, government and community in facilitating migrant workers to secure a contract job? And Are the government channels are more likely than community channels and family channels to find migrant workers’ a full time job? Other Variables: Birth cohorts, education, marital status and
In order to understand a problem, the first step is to figure out how the problem came about. To fully understand the cause of Pandemics and the disastrous effects they have on society, scientists reflect back on previous outbreaks in history. The Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918 took the world by storm and caused major havoc across the globe. An estimated 25 to 50 million people died from the disease and over 500 million people were affected around the world. Though people survived this catastrophic outbreak, they faced many struggles later as life went on. Those who were exposed to the disease very early in life faced noncancerous issues such as cardiovascular disease and respiratory disease. A research study was completed in order to find out how big of a threat early disease exposure and old age mortality was from the three waves of the pandemic that hit the United States in 1918. For each pandemic wave, the results were much different. The results were different from each wave because of a couple of factors. One being the severity of the influenza diseases during the wave and the other being how long the wave last. The second wave which lasted from September of 1918 until the end of 1918 was the deadliest. The rates in which people were exposed to the disease